Will Sunscreen Prevent Skin Cancer?

Will Sunscreen Prevent Skin Cancer?

“You have to get it done, Donna. Your mother and grandfather have skin cancers cut off every year!”

And maybe all those words of caution were warranted. After all,more than a million new cases of skin cancer emerge in the world every single year.

We all know already how important it is to protect our skin from the sun, since UV exposure is the biggest risk factor.

But did you know there may be another cause?

A study of 300,000 Americans linked over-consumption of alcohol with increased rates of sunburn. Alcohol is kind of toxic for our stomach, mouth, throat, liver and colon, as we well know, but skin? Surprising, right?

What’s happening with alcohol and sun damage? Are heavy drinkers just forgetting to use sun protection? (Maybe, but it’s not that!) Does alcohol breakdown use up antioxidants that would otherwise protect our skin? Maybe.

Here’s what we know for sure: Plants protect themselves against sun damage, and when we ingest them, we ingest those protective properties, too. We also know that consumption of plant foods gives us more antioxidants, which in turn may protect us from the sun in a similar way.

Actually, not maybe—that’s what happens, and we have proof!

A recent study took 20 female test subjects, and had half of them consume three tablespoons of tomato paste every day for three months. The other group ate as usual. They then burned both groups’ skin with UV lamps. And guess what, mama…those who were eating the tomato paste had significantly less DNA damage in the burned area—up to 40%!

And here’s where alcohol ties back in. Those same volunteers were exposed to the UV lamps again after a few drinks. They started going red significantly sooner than before. In fact, just eight minutes after consuming three shots of vodka, the antioxidant levels in test subjects skin drops. That’s fast!

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Donna Wild, Founder
When Donna was 12 years old, she had a dream to be a dancer and have a house on a property with some happy cows. However, this was the year that doctors diagnosed her with juvenile arthritis and began medicating her for the pain. At 17 years of age, she visited specialists who diagnosed her with chronic rheumatoid arthritis in her entire body and said she would be crippled by the time she was just 22. By then, she had spent her life training to be a professional dancer, however, had become 13 kilograms overweight and directionless.
Donna believes that animal cruelty is wrong and personally suffers when she sees the way humans treat animals, she has worked tirelessly for a decade to empower people and families to eat in alignment with their belief- cruelty-free.
Today, Donna is a Mum of a four-year-old, a Nutritionist, a popular plant-based health and lifestyle author and an Australian Latin Dance Champion. She is completely free of arthritis, pain, and medication.
With her experience transitioning from a meat-eating to vegetarian, to vegan, to purely plant-based diet, and with the tens of thousands of hours she’s put into learning about nutrition and human bodies, Donna has gone just as deep into the ethics behind what we eat which is how she came to found this charity.
Til The Cows Come Home is a charity that aims to be the World Vision for livestock animals, on a mission to rescue animals that are too sick or injured to make it to slaughter and re-home them to a sanctuary to live a full and happy life, just as Donna imaged as a child.